"From a humanitarian point of view I feel a lot of compassion for the displaced, and find the all-too-often negative attitudes towards migrants hard to digest. Sometimes the easy option is to turn a blind eye to situations that are uncomfortable or painful, but that doesn’t provoke change. We want to keep the migrant crisis at the forefront of public consciousness so it will remain high on the political agenda. Something needs to be done to help these people, in both the short and long term. 

The creative arts can simultaneously educate and move people; in fact by moving somebody emotionally, you are sewing a seed, and you have a very powerful tool at your hands. If artists have this tool available, what better reason is there to use it than to inspire change where it is needed? I started to learn the trumpet at the age of nine and became infatuated by music in general. At thirteen I was working out how to compose on the keyboard in my bedroom. At college, I decided this needed to be more than a hobby, so I studied Digital Music and Sound Arts at the University of Brighton, and consequently spent a couple of years scoring for stage and screen productions.